Managing Employees

August 5, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on Are You Following Your True Passion? Give Yourself the 'Wednesday Test.'…

Before he went on to direct and produce movies and TV series such as Varsity Blues, Coach Carter, Smallville and One Tree Hill, sports-fanatic filmmaker Michael Tollin made Hardwood Dreams, a documentary that chronicled one season of the Morningside High basketball team in Inglewood, Calif. The defending state champion team had ...

August 3, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on How to Prevent Petty Conflicts and Nasty Rumors From Destroying Your Startup…

I have a long-time friend who was part of a software startup company in Silicon Valley. He said that even though the idea and logistics of the organization were truly fantastic, the whole thing fell apart. When I asked him why, he said what destroyed the organization started out as ...

August 3, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on 3 Tips for Keeping Confidential Information Just That — Confidential…

Free Webinar | August 16th Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » According to Dell’s “End-User Security survey,” almost three out of four employees polled said they were “willing to share sensitive, confidential ...

If you don’t manage people well, they will find someone else who will. According to The Mercury News, Americans are quitting their jobs at the highest rate in 16 years. In January alone, 2.2 percent of the entire American workforce either left in favor of a new opportunity or quit ...

August 2, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on Just Who Has the Right Skills to Turn Uber Around?…

Last week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman decided to clear the air. The executive took to Twitter — an account that largely hadn’t been active since 2011 — to make this statement about whether she would step into Uber’s CEO position vacated by Travis Kalanick. (3/3) We have a ...

August 1, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on Should You Actually Trust Your Gut Feelings?…

Entrepreneurship often requires risk. You can do all the research under the sun and run the numbers countless times, but a lot of the time your big decisions come down to a gut decision. But how do you know if it’s right? In a recent study, University of Kent researchers ...

July 30, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on The Female-Founded Companies That Get Funded (Infographic)…

While more and more women are becoming founders and CEO, we still have a ways to go for gender parity in business. Related: 12 Female Founders Who Will Restore Your Faith in Feminism In 2016, approximately 3,033 U.S.-based companies secured funding (seed, series A and series B). Unfortunately, only 16 percent of these ...

July 29, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on The First African-American Woman to Travel to Space Shares How She Finds Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems…

Dr. Mae Jemison has built her career by taking big risks in pursuit of helping others and bettering our world — while constantly searching for brand new ones for us to explore. In 1992, she became the first African-American woman to travel to space as a crew member on board ...

July 28, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on Want to Work at Apple, Facebook or Other Tech Giants? Here's What You Need to Know….

For many, it’s a dream to work at a company such as Facebook, Google, Amazon or Apple. However, getting your foot in the door can be tricky. Related: 5 Ways to Find Your Dream Job Online career platform Paysa recently analyzed more than 8,200 job listings and more than 70,000 resumes to ...

July 28, 2017Managing EmployeesComments Off on This Doctor Who Lived to 105 Believed That for a Long Life, You Shouldn't Retire…

To live a long life, work forever. At least, that’s what one of Japan’s leading doctors believed — and he was his own proof. Before his death on July 18, 105-year-old Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara was a practicing physician, a chairman of St. Luke’s International University and the honorary president of ...